Benjamin Anastas

Benjamin Anastas is the author of the novels An Underachiever’s Diary, recently re-released in paperback by the Dial Press, and The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor’s Disappearance (FSG), which was a New York Times notable book. His memoir Too Good to Be True was published in October of 2012 by New Harvest/HMH. Other work has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Bookforum, The Yale Review and The Best American Essays 2012. He teaches literature and writing at Bennington College.

Fiction

Going Underneath

I can hear the snow. Outside, up there, crinkling down past the rooftops and dusting the fire escapes that hang…